1. Class 6a: Introduction to landforms or What goes up must come down

2. Landform processes “The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone” (McPhee) Tectonic forces (uplift) Gradational processes

3. Landform processes Geomorphology What? Where? Why? So what?

4. How old is the Earth?

5. Earth’s layers: crust “Earth scientists are like dermatologists”

6. Earth’s layers: mantle

7. Earth’s layers: core

8. Rock cycle What's a rock? What's a mineral?

9. Igneous rocks “Made from fire” Extrusive: Intrusive: from cooled magma

10. Sedimentary rocks Formed from sediment

11. Metamorphic rocks Formed from igneous or sedimentary rocks

12. Plate tectonics

15. Continental shields Shields: continental cores that haven't changed much

16. Motion of the plates Divergence: plates moving apart Transform: slip-strike

17. Motion of the plates Convergence: plates moving together Ocean-ocean Land-land collisions

18. Motion of the plates Land-ocean

19. Terranes Terranes: Bits of continents or islands "docking" with each other